Beaten In 2025

[AceAerosmith]

I'm trying to do better than the lousy 5 games I finished last year.

1.Injustice:Gods Among Us (Story mode)(PS4) 01/13/25
2.Destiny 2 (Main Campaign) (PS4) 01/14/25
3.Uncharted 4:A Thief's End (PS4) 01/23/25
4.Madden 16 (Won the Super Bowl. Meh.)(PS4) 02/17/25

[SpaceHarrier]

1. New Pokemon Snap
2. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

[Aussie2B]

1. PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe (PSP) 2/2

A much slower start to the year compared to last year, but February 2nd is coincidentally the same day I beat my first game of 2023. Still doing more in this one, so I don't think I'll be moving on to something new for a bit.

[Az]

1. Knuckle Bash 2 [Bootleg] (Arcade) 01/02
2. Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath [DLC] (Xbox One) 01/03
3. Double Dragon III (NES) 01/19
4. Hyper Street Fighter II (Arcade) 01/07
5. Retromania Wrestling (Xbox One) 01/30
6. The Punisher (Arcade) 02/04
7. Final Ventetta [Boss Rush] (Xbox One) 02/07
8. Call of Duty - Black Ops: Cold War (Xbox One) 02/20
9. Marvel Super Heroes VS Street Fighter (Arcade) 03/02
10. Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid (PS4) 03/09

[Aussie2B]

1. PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe (PSP) 2/2
2. Cabal (NES) 4/2

Decided to revisit an old favorite. I beat Cabal back in the '00s, but it was so long ago that it doesn't even appear on my list of everything I've beaten, which is comprehensive back to late 2005. Now I'll have an actual documented clear, instead of relying on memory.

[Az]

Decided to revisit an old favorite. I beat Cabal back in the '00s

How is NES Cabal? I really enjoy that type of genre (whatever it's called) but I've never touched the NES port.

[Aussie2B]

I typically see the genre described as "shooting gallery" games, but sometimes it's just "Cabal clones" (or they're compared to some other point of reference, like Wild Guns). But there are so few games in the genre that I don't think there's a solid consensus.

I don't think I've ever actually played the original arcade version of Cabal (despite playing much more obscure shooting gallery games on MAME, like Nix's Pirates), let alone any of the many computer ports, so I don't know how good of a port the NES version is compared to the original or other ports. But I love it all the same. The controls feel really smooth to me, and it's a blast tearing up the landscape and picking off the enemies. Rare handled the NES port, and I'm usually pretty pleased with their work on the system.

[Aussie2B]

1. PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe (PSP) 2/2
2. Cabal (NES) 4/2
3. Operation Wolf (NES) 4/10

I may have beaten Cabal just recently, but that's a game I've beaten in the past too. Operation Wolf is the first US-released NES game I've beaten for the first time in well over a decade. That said, I did beat the Famicom version of Kid Dracula for the first time just a couple years ago.